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THE RELIEF OF
MAFEKING

HOW IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY
MAHON'S FLYING COLUMN; WITH
AN ACCOUNT OF SOME EARLIER
EPISODES IN THE BOER WAR OF
1899-1900

BY

FILSON YOUNG

WITH PORTRAITS AND PLANS

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
1900

FIELD-MARSHALL LORD ROBERTS, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I.,G.C.I.E., V.C.

TO
M. C. D.

PREFACE

The proprietors of the Manchester Guardian have kindly allowed me tomake use of their copyright in the letters written by me to thatnewspaper during the first half of the year. The substance of theletters has been reproduced in the hope that home-staying folk may findin them something of the atmosphere that surrounds the collision ofarmed forces. It is a strange and rude atmosphere; yet it pleases me atthis moment to remember not so much the strangeness and rudeness as thekindness and good-fellowship that made a dreadful business tolerable andthe memory of it pleasant. Many friends of these brave days I may notsee again, but if their eyes should ever light on this page I would havethem know that it contains a greeting.

FILSON YOUNG

London, July 31st, 1900

CONTENTS

Part I.

ENGLAND IN TIME OF WAR

Part II.

IN THE WAKE OF THE ARMY

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